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Jami is the District 7 forester, serving 23 counties in rural forestry, and 24 counties in community forestry for northwest Kansas. She is a western Kansas native and is very pleased to work to maintain the health, beauty, and productivity of our natural resources.

John is the District Forester for district 8 in southwest Kansas. He was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. John has an A.

The District Forester in your region is your first point of contact for Federal Excess Personal Property inventory, Tree Farm inspections, rural forestry issues, conservation education, and technical assistance on NRCS Farm Bill programs.

Jason Hartman is the State Forester stationed in the State Office in Manhattan. The State Forester oversees, supports and encourages a wide variety of resource management, conservation, and wildland fire management activities of the agencies employees across the state.

Thad Rhodes has been the District Forester for North Central Kansas since November of 2001. He grew up in Argonia, KS and attended Kansas State University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Park Resource Management, as well as a Secondary Major in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and a minor in Horticulture.

The District Forester in your region is your first point of contact for Federal Excess Personal Property inventory, Tree Farm inspections, rural forestry issues, conservation education, and technical assistance on NRCS Farm Bill programs.

Timber stand improvement, hand tree planting, machine and tree & shrub planting, riparian forestry management, herbicide application

Ryan Rastok serves as the District 1 forester in northeast Kansas. He was raised in the Lawrence area where he graduated from the University of Kansas in 2010 with a double major in Environmental Science and Geography.

Ashley is the district forester for District 4 in southeast Kansas. She was born and raised in Kansas City, MO. Ashley has an A.S Degree in Natural Science and B.

Katy came to KFS in July of 2010. She attended college at Southeast Missouri State University and obtained her Masters degree in Forestry from Southern Illinois University in 2009.

The Council of Western State Foresters (CWSF) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization comprised of state, territorial and commonwealth foresters whose role is to protect, conserve and enhance Western and Pacific island forests.

Since 2001, Blue Mountain Environmental Consulting has provided ecological services, conservation planning, and environmental complaince solutions to landowners and managers throughout the Rocky Mountain west.

Timber sale marketing and administration, forest inventory, forest management plans, food ploy layout and wildlife management planning, prescribed bur

Providing forest and wildlife management services including timber sale marketing and administration, forest and wildlife management planning, prescribed burning, GIS services, and others.

Yarnell Forestry Consulting strives to provide forest landowners with sound forest management advice and timber marketing assistance, to promote positive relationships with forest products industry members, and to educate the public about the benefits of forest management.

Hemard & Company is a consulting firm providing information technology and business consulting for forestry, forest products, and natural resouces-based businesses.

Research Interests Forest and native plant nursery propagation, outplanting, and establishment including biophysical and physiological limitations and adaptations within each system.

The Forest Biometrics Research Institute (FBRI) is a non-profit public research corporation dedicated to sustainable and scientifically based forest management.